Ensure your sixth form is full next year by matching your course spaces with students looking for last minute places.
The Matching Hub works in a similar way to University Clearing:
- Sixth Forms and Colleges who have spaces remaining in any subjects after their enrolment period is complete can publish these spaces on the Matching Hub
- Students who have not yet secured a place can find available spaces on courses for which they are eligible and express their interest
- Sixth Forms/Colleges are notified when an eligible student expresses interest and can review their details and make enrolment offers directly
- Students can review their offers and accept one, at which point the Sixth Form/College can enrol the student and collect any additional data from them
This year, accessing the Matching Hub is FREE (usually £499)
If you successfully recruit students via the Matching Hub, the fee per student is £299
The Matching Hub opened Friday 30th August 8:00AM
Prior to the Matching Hub being activated, your courses will be need to tagged with their Course Title, Qualification Type and Subject Area. Applicaa have bulk filled the courses that were easy to map. You may have some that need to be checked (settings > subject options > subjects).
You publish your available spaces for each course to the Matching Hub by navigating to the Timetables area within your A+ system.
Select which courses you would like to publish and select “publish to ApplicaaOne”.
This can be completed in bulk by selecting multiple courses before clicking the “publish” button.
Once a course is published to ApplicaaOne, the button will be ticked (those unpublished appear greyed out).
Type YES to confirm your selection.
You can also specify who should be notified when a new expression of interest is received.
You will see an overview of courses and classes, showing the total number of spaces available.
Expressions of interest will be visible to you within your Enrolment area in A+.
You will see a Matching Hub tab, where all students who are approaching you via the Matching Hub will be listed so you can see their achieved grades and proof, and their preferred subjects.
Process them by selecting to “make an offer” or “decline”.
If you choose to make them an offer, the student will then respond to this on the Matching Hub.
If they accept, you will see the option to “enrol this student”.
How it works for Students
Students log into ApplicaaOne to access the Matching Hub - this will only be available to them if they are not currently enrolled elsewhere.
They specify their preferred courses, achieved grades (with evidence), and their contact information.
They can then search for providers and express an interest with up to 5 Sixth Forms/Colleges - schools they match with, who have published available spaces will show in their results.
Students can track and respond to their offers in the Matching Hub - on receiving offers, they can only choose to accept one.
On accepting an offer, they may then be contacted again by the Sixth Form or College to request additional information to complete their enrolment, such as parent/carer information, medical and welfare details etc.